Windows can and will crash — and after it does it may not boot normally. To be prepared for worst-case scenarios, learn how to create a bootable recovery partition on your system drive.

You can partition a hard drive in Windows 10 to create dedicated portions of the hard drive that your computer will recognize separately.

How to safely expand a Windows 10 partition Even though you have expanded the disk size for your VM, this does not automatically change the properties of the Windows filesystem.